If you struggle to visualise, just focus on your breathing. When you notice you are distracted bring it back to your breathing. Acknowledge where your mind drifted but try not to dwell on it as you focus back.

There are also apps available to help with breathing exercises. I had one that showed a balloon inflating and deflating. I found it easier to focus on that at first.

Counting while you box breath can also make it easier. The count can be whatever you're comfortable with. 5 5 5 5 works well for me.

Nah he's just bullshitting to his base. This isn't a mental health crisis or anything. Just grifting.

"ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly"

Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it's brilliant.

This used to happen when new subs opened. Most of my feed was just them.

My assumption was that as the sub grew the posts kept getting voted higher than any other on the sub and therefore pushed as top material relative to the subs normal amount of up votes.

I got into programming when my disabilities hit as a teenager.

So fucking lucky I did as I now get paid decent money to sit in my pjs in bed at a computer.

But then they'll only refuse in areas they think they'll lose.

Most of the time yeah. But it depends as you can write c# with very little GC use if you avoid allocations.

Ahead of time compiling also gets things much closer. But then you lose runtime optimization.

Actually jit languages can outperform compiled languages by using runtime analysis to perform tiered compilation and profile guided optimisations.

C# has made some great strides in this regard.

All the normal optimisations are applied when it is compiled to byte code. Like loop unrolling etc.

Then once it detects the hot paths during execution it can apply even more based on how it is called. It can also do optimisations that aren't possible at initial compile time.

Dynamic PGO it's called. It's a really interesting topic.

Indeed. But the pdf file itself isn't the issue here. They very clearly don't know what serialisation is.

And while there are risks with java serialisation it isn't being deserialized here.

It's literally just the format of the file here. If you skip the java serialisation header it's a normal pdf file. I said nothing about the pdf file itself.

I did explain what it is. I just don't know why certain programs encode it this way. It's supported by multiple pdf readers so it must be semi common but I can't find a reason for it to be encoded this way.

I'm trying to help you out there's no need to be a dick.

The file is a serialised java array that contains a pdf file. I've seen a few things online about this. Some pdf readers accept it, some don't.

And I'm not sure why an application would output a pdf this way. But there's nothing harmful going on.

Money. Sone people will look past almost anything if they think it'll make them richer.

Ok boomer.

But seriously this is the sort of stuff our grandkids will roll their eyes and laugh at

Good for you buddy 👍

And that's a privilege not everyone has.

And tbh most cis people wouldn't enjoy being misgendered either.

That is literally the worst use case for AIs. There's no way they should be letting it provide contact info like that.

Also they're stupid for dialing a random number.

Go talk to your doctor mate. If you can talk to your wife. If not any friends/family who you trust and who don't use it.

Cocaine isn't physically addictive so it's much easier to get off than something like heroin. But don't get me wrong it's still difficult.

You may also be suffering depression or similar. I use drugs to deal with the symptoms of mine when they get too much. It's worth having a think about. Did you have other issues with happiness or functioning before the coke.

This is a big first step. Best of luck mate.

This is definitely the answer. Bonus points for contextless clues to getting the other half.

That second one is a solar farm / battery installation. So it's included.

How would you check two variables have equal values without changing the value of one otherwise?

Assignment you are assigning a value to the left side. Equality you are checking if the left and right are equal.

It's "set equal to" Vs "is equal to" one is an operation the other is a condition.